Battletech nerds rejoice? Mechwarrior 5 being worked on?

[Whacker]

OH MY GOD.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002275p1.html

Here's the interview: http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002164p1.html

New video! It's confirmed, takes place in 3015, based on a Kurita invasion.

Positives: It LOOKS beautiful. I was right, it was a Warhammer! HAH! It LOOKS like a sim! Things are big and clunky and don't move like friggin' gundams.

Negatives: It's going to be a stupid multiplatform game. The interfaces looks decidedly consoleish and horribly oversimplified. I hope to god they fix that. Bad interfaces and controls can ruin a game completely.

Against all better judgment I am getting pretty excited now!

Edit - And I just had a LOT of the wind taken out of my sails.

"Russ Bullock: First and foremost, in this day and age and this time, we've all played the PC games in the past and absolutely loved them. But certainly going forward, just out of necessity and because we think we can, we're definitely very focused also on the Xbox 360. So we're very focused on the console standpoint moving forward. Now, we still need to work out a lot with our chosen publishing partner, so some of these questions will become answered, but I think that Jordan and I are in agreement that we want to make a MechWarrior game. "

Yet again, the PC becomes a simple afterthought.